A good lesson from our friends at xkcd.
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If you havn’t seen any of the Common Craft videos yet, you need to. In one fell swoop, a couple in Seattle has transformed the HOWTO into a 5 minute video that can introduce anybody, even your own grandmother, to semi-complex web topics — all while speaking plain english.
They are amazing, inspiring, and just plain fun to watch. Common Craft creates teaching videos with humans in mind. They do 100% original work for their show: Common Craft TV, as well as doing custom videos for companies that one of them for their website or product.
“RSS in Plain English” video is available, after the jump.
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One of the topics that really stood out for me at BarCamp Orlando, was Co-Working. Co-working is basically sharing a space with other freelancers, independents, telecommuters, mobile works, and other work-at-home types to foster a sense of community around the work that you do.
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If you’re using Wordpress 2.3 and Extended Live Archives (a super-sweet Ajax’d version of the WP archives page), then you need to get this patch, in order to fix problems with it.
There’s something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper.
A really interesting take when you apply Moore’s Law to the act of starting a Web 2.0 company. Read the entire essay, which was adapted from a Future of Web Apps keynote speech.
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